oh, the anticipation!

you know what's worse than getting yelled at? knowing you're going to get yelled at in advance and having to wait for it. i made a boo-boo at work - i was using a USB drive to work on files that one of the lawyers, who was borrowing a computer, was working on. i saved the work to the USB drive (which isn't mine) but failed to save it to my own computer nor did i save it to the shared file on the network. and guess which files were urgently needed by the VP on monday? i thought about saving all the files on that drive to my computer "just in case" and i would sort it out later but ended up not doing it. in hindsight... anyway, on monday, they were on a frantic search and discovered my error. i was supposed to go by the VP's house to pick it up on monday but was told to "swing by and pick it up when she's back home on thursday" (read: you're in trouble). if that wasn't bad enough, they phoned me again today to ask for another file that i hadn't saved to the network, nor to my computer (which led me to believe I hadn't worked on it until the lawyer said otherwise - I still don't remember working on it). it was on the USB drive, though. it's not enough to get me fired but it's enough to get an earful. crap.